• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Bolts!

S

SimpleOne

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi All,

I'm just getting myself together a kit of spare nuts and bolts, but I'm trying to work out the terminology and materials.

For starters, does anyone know what the hell the OEM bolts are made from?
Are they a stainless steel alloy or chrome plated steel alloy, or something else?

Secondly, what types of bolts are they?
Most I have seen are what I would call Allen bolts (/Socket Cap) or else Flange bolts (/Hex Washer), does anyone know of more common names for these type of bolts?

Thirdly, size wise they seem to be M5, M6 and M8 (with only the odd exception), with M6x1.0 (ISO M6 Coarse) being the most common. Lengths seem to vary from min 12mm through to about 60mm, with most being 20-35mm.

FYI, this has proved handy for me and might be of use to others:
http://www.boltdepot.com/fastener-information/printable-tools/printable-fastener-tools.pdf
 
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